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Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Maria Russo |
Psycho factories Nonviolent criminals go in and sadistic thugs come out, but with military spending down, America's small towns are hooked on prisons...   |
AskMen.com
Ben Dutka |
Top 10: Notorious Prisons The following is a list of the 10 most notorious jails on earth; they are the worst of the worst and the lowest of the low. |
ifeminists
September 16, 2003
Wendy McElroy |
Confronting Prison Rape A bright light is about to be shone on an almost unseen social problem: prison rape. On Sept. 4, President Bush signed the Prison Rape Elimination Act, which provides for an annual Department of Justice review on the rate and effects of prison rape. Why should you care? |
Salon.com
July 13, 2000
Damien Cave |
Jailhouse Net Inmates with e-mail? It could happen at some state prisons experimenting with technology behind bars. |
Wired
May 22, 2009
Vince Beiser |
Prisoners Run Gangs, Plan Escapes, and Even Order Hits With Smuggled Cellphones Prisoners are using cell phones to make calls, send text messages, and email to taunt their victims, intimidate witnesses, run gangs, and organize escapes. |
Salon.com
October 10, 2000
Eric Lassiter |
"Scared Straight" for the business set MBA students take a mandatory trip to prison for a lesson on ethics from corporate criminals... |
Salon.com
May 8, 2002
Nell Bernstein |
Punishment for the whole family California prison officials want to prohibit parents convicted of drug offenses from touching their children -- even infants and toddlers -- for one year... |
AskMen.com
Mr. Mafioso |
Mafioso: Worst Prisons In America If you ever have to serve time, pray you don't have to do it in one of these, the worst prisons in America. |
Salon.com
March 29, 2001
Damien Cave |
The business of law and order The author of "Going up the River" says that the booming private-prison industry is due for a bust... |
AskMen.com
Nick Clarke |
How To: Survive Jail Entering prison is not like your first day at school -- it's worse. |
Salon.com
October 25, 2000
Nell Bernstein |
Motherless children The drug war has stamped an entire class of parents as permanently unfit... |
Reason
May 2007
Cathy Young |
Assault Behind Bars How big a problem is prison rape in the U.S. -- and what can be done about it? |
ifeminists
August 4, 2004
Wendy McElroy |
In Defense of 'Deadbeat' Dads It is time for the prison release of impoverished deadbeat dads to become official policy in every corner of North America. |
Mother Jones
June 2000
Barry Yeoman |
Steel Town Lockdown Corrections Corporation of America is trying to turn Youngstown, Ohio, into the private-prison capital of the world. |
Reason
August 2003
Jesse Walker |
Rape Behind Bars A left/right coalition has assembled behind H.R. 1707, the Prison Rape Reduction Act of 2003. The bill would conduct more complete research on the problem and would "provide information, resources, recommendations, and funding to protect individuals from prison rape." The Justice Dept. opposes it. |
Popular Mechanics
February 12, 2008
Erik Sofge |
High-Tech Lockup: Inside 4 Next-Gen Prison Security Systems From radio-frequency identification (RFID) bracelets tracking a suspicious gathering in the library to a scaled-down version of the military's "pain ray," a new crop of high-tech systems is being considered to tamp prison violence. |
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Read Our Lips: No New Terrorists The Obama administration has no plans to release dangerous Guantanamo prisoners into their communities. |
Salon.com
September 4, 2001
David Horowitz |
Pardoned, but unforgiving After being pardoned by Bill Clinton, former Weatherman member Linda Evans is still an enemy of American democracy... |
Salon.com
January 12, 2001
Earl Ofari Hutchinson |
Hardest hit by the prison craze Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society. |
Reason
March 2009
Jacob Sullum |
Misery Gets Company Incarceration record |
Salon.com
January 26, 2001
Daryl Lindsey |
Words held hostage The national media reported on every detail of the dramatic "Texas Seven" prison escape -- except the fugitives' harsh criticism of the state's criminal justice system when they surrendered... |
Adventure
Dec 2003/Jan 2004
Shan-san Wu |
The Atkins Zone The Houdini of fast escapes from international prisons advises on how to get out--and stay out--of jail while traveling abroad. Plus, some good reasons to avoid getting slammed in these six notorious tourist traps. |
Fast Company
September 2002
Chuck Salter |
From the Penthouse to the Big House David Novak did time as a white-collar crook at Eglin Federal Prison Camp, aka Club Fed. Now he advises first-time felons on how to survive life on the inside. Hey, Ken and Jeff (and Bernie and Sam and Dennis), would you like his number? |
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Typo Costs Man 3 Years A Thai man has been released from an Indonesian prison after spending three extra years behind bars because of a typo in his paperwork, a report said Friday. |
BusinessWeek
April 21, 2011
Tom McNichol |
Keeping Cell Phones Out of Jail Cells As prisons try to block unauthorized cell phone use, companies are developing systems that cost over $1 million to address the problem. |
Geotimes
August 2005
Megan Sever |
Geology 101 in Prison An innovative program at San Quentin State Prison in California is offering college degrees to inmates, who can take courses in philosophy, sociology, government and geology. The program is run entirely on donations. |
